Hi. Just bought a Linksys b/g PCMCIA card for my ThinkPad R40. Works
great under XP, but what do I have to do to get it to work under Linux
(Mandrake 10.0)?

One possibility: are there standard wireless networking drivers for
11g that would work with that card? How about 11b?

MTIA, Matt

09-30-2007, 05:16 PM

unix

Re: Wireless networking

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:54:02 -0700, Gerbilio wrote:
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> Hi. Just bought a Linksys b/g PCMCIA card for my ThinkPad R40. Works
> great under XP, but what do I have to do to get it to work under Linux
> (Mandrake 10.0)?
>
> One possibility: are there standard wireless networking drivers for
> 11g that would work with that card? How about 11b?
>
> MTIA, Matt[/color]

You didn't say which card you got, it would help if you were to tell us
which card and which chipset is on it. Do an lspci to get the details.

If the card has Linux support chances are it's in a much more recent
kernel then what's in MDK 10.0 so you'll have to upgrade the kernel to the
current one. If there is no native Linux support your other option is to
use Ndiswrapper and use the XP driver. Mandrake includes Ndiswrapper in
the club version, but 10.0 is so old I don't know how well it's version of
Ndiswrapper will work. Get the current version here,

[url]http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/[/url]

09-30-2007, 05:16 PM

unix

Re: Wireless networking

"Gerbilio" <itmpm@wintec.ac.nz> writes:
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>Hi. Just bought a Linksys b/g PCMCIA card for my ThinkPad R40. Works
>great under XP, but what do I have to do to get it to work under Linux
>(Mandrake 10.0)?[/color]
[color=blue]
>One possibility: are there standard wireless networking drivers for
>11g that would work with that card? How about 11b?[/color]

There may be native drivers (depends on the exact card and its chipset) and
there is always ndiswrapper which uses windows drivers.

09-30-2007, 05:16 PM

unix

Re: Wireless networking

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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>> Hi. Just bought a Linksys b/g PCMCIA card for my ThinkPad R40. Works
>> great under XP, but what do I have to do to get it to work under Linux
>> (Mandrake 10.0)?[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> You didn't say which card you got, it would help if you were to tell us
> which card and which chipset is on it. Do an lspci to get the details.[/color]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
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> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Hi. Just bought a Linksys b/g PCMCIA card for my ThinkPad R40.
>>> Works great under XP, but what do I have to do to get it to work
>>> under Linux (Mandrake 10.0)?[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
>> You didn't say which card you got, it would help if you were to tell
>> us which card and which chipset is on it. Do an lspci to get the
>> details.[/color]
>
> Does lspci tell you anything about PCMCIA cards?
>[/color]